Family and Education
b. c. 1606, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Coventry†, later Bar. Coventry, and Sarah, da. of John Seabright of Blakeshall, Worcs. T. Nash, Colls. for Hist. of Worcs., i. 79. bro. of Henry‡ and William Coventry.‡ educ. I. Temple 1623. m. 2 Apr. 1627, Mary (d.1634), da. of Sir William Craven, Merchant Taylor and alderman of London, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. d.v.p. d. 27 Oct. 1661; will 31 Aug. 1657, pr. 20 Feb. 1662. TNA, PROB 11/307.
Offices Held
Custos. rot. Worcs. 1628 – c.43, 5 July 1660 – d.; custos rot. Glos. 1638 – ?; mbr., Council in the Marches 1633; commr. array, Worcs. 1642, Worcester 1642.
Mbr., Plymouth Venturers 1625.
Associated with: Croome D'Abitot, Worcs.;VCH Worcs. iii. 314-15.; Dorchester House, Covent Garden, Mdx.; Lincoln’ Inn Fields, Mdx.Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford, ed. D.J.H. Clifford, 154.;
Likenesses
by Cornelius Jonson, Croome d’Abitot.
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
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